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Brainwashed by the Westboro Baptist Church

VICE is back and continue to produce eye opening documentaries. We set our sights on the story of the Westboro Baptist Church. The community where homosexual funerals turn into protests, and families are torn apart for the good of the Church. VICE has interviewed more than a dozen members of the group. They were given access to 17 years of home video footage. The result is a fairly unbiased look into one of the most hated organizations in the United States today.

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  • SUM1UDONO

    So much for “Let him without sin cast the first stone”…

  • madscirat

    Good doc. Louie’s was better, far more personal and still objective, but that’s a high bar.

    The Westboro folks don’t bother me as much as most Christians. Taking the Bible as a given truth, their beliefs are far far more logically consistent than most of their more liberal counterparts. If other Christians forced themselves to interpret scripture as accurately and rationally as this church, they would have abandoned the religion decades ago instead of descending into a limbo of half truths and Bible editing. You either get your ethics from your heart or you get them from a book. There is no middleground.

    • AZryan

      If you just say ‘Louie’s was better’, only people who’ve already seen L. Theroux’s ‘Most Hated Family In America’ show/s know what you’re talking about. Are you trying to not be informative on purpose? If it’s too much trouble to explain, why post?

      Also, no one gets ethics from their ‘heart’. If you’re going to make a real point about something like where ethics comes from, or where it should come from, then probably not great to be poetically inaccurate. I mean, that’s kind of a core problem of religious dogma in the first place. ‘abuse of poetic nonsense to manipulate people’.

      For the record, ethics come from addressing physical and psychological pain and suffering and balancing the concept of fairness in a rational manner, etc.

      If you ‘feel in your heart’ stealing is wrong, it had to’ve come from something you actually learned from people, or nature itself, at some point. It could come from a book -just hopefully not any form of a ‘bible’ because those are illogical messes.

      • madscirat

        Louie was referenced several times during the doc, so it’s not a matter of being uninformed but not paying attention. Also, it’s hard to imagine many documentary fans not knowing who I mean when I say ‘Louie.’

        As for your ridiculousness concerning my heart comment. If you want to go through life taking everything literally, including comments any child knows aren’t meant to be taken literally, then that’s your decision. I, however, politely refuse to remove all poetry and metaphor from my language for the benefit of your swollen left brain… oh, see there I go again.

        • AZryan

          If someone didn’t ‘already see’ this doc then they might very well not know what you’re referring to in your post. That was and still is my point. Feel free to make posts like that, but it looks like you’re just trying to look like you’re ‘in the know’ rather than trying to be informative/helpful/useful at all.

          And you obviously don’t get my other point about how you used poetic language to make a point about where ethics ‘actually/really’ comes from. There are lots of places for the poetry of language, but ‘that’ isn’t one of them.
          Saying we get ethics ‘from the heart’ not a ‘book’ was a lousy point.
          Trying to explain my point further, I noted how religion also misuses poetic language in places where it doesn’t belong/causes assorted harm.
          If you want to believe I was chiding you for ‘not being literal at all times’, that’s just a lame strawman delusion you’ve put up to pretend your post was flawless, so constructive criticism must be impossible.

      • AddNewComment1

        Or you could just disagree with everything everyone says because your miserable and need to pick apart what others post because you feel a false sense of superiority.